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46Introductory Note. Population Ethics: The Unavoidability of the Quality of Life and the Ensuing ParadoxesIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 27-34. 2012.Population ethics is defined and presented, and some of the paradoxes it encapsulates are spelled out. It is argued that the concept of the quality of a life or of a life worth living can- not be avoided if inquiry on many relevant ethical and political topics is to be pursued in a theoretically fitting mode. In particular, the article deals with the asymmetry between rea- sons for not creating unhappy lives and reasons for creating happy lives, the well-known repugnant conclusion and the parado…Read more
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9Virtualization of the Real and Citizenship People, Power, Society, and PersonsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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15He buttered the toast while baking a fresh loafPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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14Symposium: Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it MostPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.With a discussion of Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most. By Thom Hale, David Held, and Kevin Young. Guest editors Marcello Di Paola Pietro Maffettone Submission deadline Long abstract : 15 July, 2015 Full paper : […]
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14Democratic Equality and Freedom of Religion: Between Coercion and PersuasionPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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2Religious Freedom and the Reasons for RightsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Ambiente, cambiamento climatico e generazioni future [Environment, Climate change, and Future Generations]la Società Degli Individui 39. 2010.Il saggio introduce le tematiche di questo numero, soffermandosi in parti- colare sulla rilevanza etica e politica del cambiamento climatico. Dopo una rapida spiegazione dell'effetto serra naturale e artificiale, si ripercorrono le teorie che concepiscono il cambiamento climatico come un problema di giustizia distributiva. Secondo alcuni autori queste teorie non sono suffi- cienti per dare strumenti adeguati, perché il cambiamento climatico rappre- senta un problema etico nuovo, che richiede una…Read more
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10Money, Autonomy, Citizenship. Effects of the Programa Bolsa Familia on Its ParticipantsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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7Thompson on Rawls and PracticesPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Gridlock? MaybePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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6Responses to Rubenstein, Conly, Vallier, and LeverPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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33Particularism and individuation: Disappearing, not varying, features (review)Acta Analytica 21 (2): 54-70. 2006.Particularism denies that invariant valence is always possible and that it is needed in sound moral theorising. It relies on variabilism, namely the idea that the relevant features of a given situation can alter their moral valence even across seemingly similar cases. An alternative model is defended (the “disappearing model”), in which changes in the overall relevance of complex cases are explained by re-individuation of the constituent features: certain features do not alter their relevance in…Read more
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59Temporary Reproductive Suspension: Population Ethics and Climate ChangeIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 57-78. 2012.This paper focuses on a specific proposal connected with the issue of mitigating climate change by reducing GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. The idea of campaigning in favour of a temporary reproductive suspension, to be addressed to a range of citizens of developed countries , is explored. Some details of the proposal are specified, and the proposal itself is defended against four objec- tions: 1. that it encroaches reproductive freedom; 2. that it subtracts from the overall value the valu…Read more
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8Justice in the Auditorium Gardiner’s Theory of Intergenerational JusticePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.download
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22Where does our undestanding of life come from? The riddle about recognizing living thingsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. 2015.The essay discusses Michael Thompson's original way of combining Aristotle and Frege in understanding life and, more specifically, biological species. His approach is compared with different styles of thought of hermeneutical or phenomenological leaning.
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25How not to Define PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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3The Concept of Person between the Christian Tradition and Post-modern SocietyPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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14Defending Punishment. Replies to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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6Re-stating Statist Theories of TerritoryPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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18A Précis of PunishmentPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Nota introduttiva. Etica delle popolazioni: l'inevitabilità della qualità della vita e dei paradossi che ne conseguonoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (1): 27-34. 2012.
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3Inducing Democracy in the Age of Eric GarnerPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |